MARIO CANNATARO, PhD, is Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro. His research explores bioinformatics, computational proteomics and genomics, medical informatics, grid and parallel computing, and adaptive web systems. Dr. Cannataro has published three books and more than 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

PIETRO HIRAM GUZZI, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at the Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro. His research focuses on the analysis of protein interaction networks and the use of biological knowledge encoded in ontologies for modeling, querying, and analyzing protein interaction networks.